Meetings

Macra na Feirme – Shane Fitzgerald – Dairy farmer from Waterford whose farm is a participant in the Teagasc Signpost Programme [Presentation]

IFA – Paul O’Brien (Environment Committee Chair) – Sheep and Tillage farmer in Graignamanagh Co, Kilkenny for 34 years [Presentation]

ICMSA – Pat McCormack (President) – County Tipperary dairy farmer who supplies Tipp Coop with spring calving herd

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Irish Organic Association. Stephen Meredith (Policy advisor) – Organic beef and tillage farmer, working with his father and brother near Ballylinan, Co. Laois [Presentation]

11.05 a.m.     Roundtable discussion (private session)

11:30 am      Q&A

Talamh Beo – Maurice Deasy – Arable and Sheep farmer with his father in North Tipperary [Presentaion] 

INHFA – Aideen McGloin – Sheep and Beef Farmer, Ox Mountains, South Sligo [Presentation]

ICSA – Dan Lynam – Farmer for 55 years, farming 400 acres with his son in Westmeath [Presentation]

Irish Grain Growers – Pat Cleary – Farms 600 acres with his two sons – the family’s 6th farming generation – in Kildare [Presentation]

12:15 pm      Roundtable discussion (private session)

12:40 pm     Q&A

1:00 pm      Lunch

2:00 pm             Prof. Lynn Dicks, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. What can we learn from other countries? [Presentaion]

2:15 pm        Dr Brendan Dunford, Manager, Burren Programme and founder of Burrenbeo Trust. Engaging and motivating farmers to reverse biodiversity loss [Presentation]

2:30 pm        Roundtable discussion (private session)

2:55 pm        Q&A

3:10 pm        Coffee & interlude

3:25 pm        Richard Nairn, Director Natura Trees, member of the Steering Committee of Woodlands of Ireland. Overview: Woodlands and Forests – Biodiversity Loss and Recovery. [Presentation]

3:40 pm           Mark Carlin, Managing Director for Forestry, Coillte. Forestry and Biodiversity [Presentation]

3:50 pm        Roundtable discussion (private session)

4:15 pm        Q&A

4:30 pm        Woodland and Forestry video

4:45 pm Roundtable discussion (private session)

5:00 pm   Q&A with contributors featured in Woodland and Forestry video

• Eoghan Daltun – Beara Rainforest, Cork
• Caroline Stanley – Friends of Merlin Wood, Galway
• Andy Francis – Sitka spruce plantation farmer, Tipperary

5.20 pm      Session ends. Conclusion of day’s proceedings

9:00 am             Questions from Saturday’s sessions with the EAG

9:30 am        Prof. Áine Ryall, School of Law, University College Cork. Environmental Rights and Rights of Nature [Presentation]

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9:45 am        Q&A

10:00 am           Dr Catherine Farrell, Ecologist, Coordinator Peatlands Gathering 2021. Overview of Peatlands & Biodiversity [Presentation]

Peatlands: Voices from the Community

10:15 am     Seamus Boland, Chief Executive Officer, Irish Rural Link [Presentation]

Ciaran Duggan – Farmer, forester and bog man, connecting nature with community as a member of the Carbury bog committee. Community Wetlands Forum. [Presentation]

Nuala Madigan, Chief Executive Officer, Irish Peatlands Conservation Council [Presentation]

10:40 am      Roundtable discussion (private session)

11:05 am      Q&A

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11:20 am      Coffee

Private session

12:55 pm      Wrap up by Chairperson

1.pm     Conclusion of weekend’s proceedings